related Supreme Court argument was that mandatory retirement is necessary to obviate the need to monitor productivity in order … no evidence that academic productivity declines with, and only with, the onset of the 60s; that in jurisdictions without …

Using detailed household-farm level data from Malawi, we measure real farm total factor productivity (TFP) controlling … are essentially unrelated to farm TFP implying a strong negative effect on agricultural productivity. A reallocation of … factors to their efficient use among existing farmers would increase agricultural productivity by a factor of 3.6-fold. We …

? We develop a model of human capital accumulation that emphasizes productivity and life expectancy differences across …

fall in total factor productivity and in capital accumulation. We analyze Venezuela during the collapse episode in the …

productivity differences. Poor countries have low labour productivity in agriculture relative to other sectors, yet predominantly … international trade to: (1) measure sectoral productivity and trade costs across countries; and (2) quantify the impact of low poor …-country food imports on international income and productivity gaps. Specifically, I expand on Yi and Zhang [2010] and modify an …

productivity (TFP). In this article, we summarize a recent literature - and the articles in this special issue on misallocation and … productivity - that focus on the reallocation of factors across heterogeneous production units as an important source of measured …

assess the quantitative contribution of productivity and life expectancy differences across countries in explaining … schooling in poor than in rich countries consistent with the data. These results highlight the importance of productivity and … development in education, emphasizing the crucial role of productivity improvements in poor countries relative to often …

labor supply margin to assess the quantitative contribution of productivity and life expectancy in explaining educational … productivity. …

use the model to assess the quantitative contribution of productivity and life expectancy differences across countries in …

-country productivity differences are larger in manufacturing than in services. The service sector comprises heterogeneous categories. We … with an input-output structure, we find that cross-country productivity differences are much larger in non … productivity difference is reduced by more than half when abstracting from intermediate inputs. Development requires an emphasis on …